----- Original Message ----- From: Carol&PT [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 5:32 PM Subject: Durand Medal After many years, I have been told that the ribbon (without a medal) with my father's four medals from WWII, incl. Burma Star, is from the Durand Medal. This was apparently a bronze medal, to be presented annually to an Indian Officer, an N.C.O. or a Sapper who in the opinion of the Commandant of his Corps (Royal Bengal Engineers) had distinguished himself as a Soldier and a Sapper by good and efficient service. (Told me by the Royal Engineers Museum). My father joined the Sappers & Miners in 1941 (he was living and working at Gondalpara, near Chandernagore) and eventually went into Burma, building bailey bridges and so on. Does anyone know how I would find out if (a) it was awarded to him, and (b) if so, when and why. He had been given two khukree knives at some point - was one of them in exchange for the actual medal, keeping the ribbon? Who knows!! Any advice will be gratefully received! Carol T.